acceptance
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The New York Times noted that Mackie tried and failed to gain acceptance for his designs "from the frosty corridors of high fashion," but Mackie said he had no regrets for embracing glitz.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
He said it was a "long-overdue acceptance of the reality that the people of Scotland will decide their own future".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Their time is too precious, and they seek to build excitement for their acceptance speech on the final night.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
A few days later, early in the morning, I got the acceptance email while I scrolled through my phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
But by then her acceptance of her fate was so deep that she was not even upset by the certainty that all possibilities of rectification were closed to her.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By comparison, for medium-tariff universities - where students tend to get in with fewer Ucas points than the more selective universities - acceptances increased by 3.8%.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
According to Ucas, engineering and technology subjects saw the biggest growth in university acceptances, up 16% from last year.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Total gross impaired loans and acceptances were C$6.94 billion, an increase from C$6.86 billion in the prior quarter, due to higher impaired loans in Canadian personal and commercial banking, mainly in residential mortgages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
As they receive acceptances and rejections, they add that information to the website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
She graduated second in her class and had had her choice of colleges: a full ride at Oberlin, a partial scholarship at Denison, acceptances all over the state, from Kenyon to Kent State to Wooster.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Vocabulary lists containing acceptance
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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